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Part 2: History of Immigration to the US and NY

Part 2 of the course readings focuses on the history of immigration to the United States with a special interest in New York City. With monikers such as "nation of immigrants" commonly used to describe the US, many of us think we know a great deal about US immigration history. However, more often than not, we are only aware of the most superficial explanations of US immigrant experience and history.

As part of an ongoing way to get new and up-to-date readings to students, I've been playing with different tools. This blog was one way, but I have a sneaking suspicion that students don't really read the substantive posts available here...I've also considered creating a shared "class bibliography" project using Cite-u-Like or Zotero. The idea is that there must be a way to quickly and easily share articles recent articles that we may read regularly, but that students don't see. In this way it's akin to enlarging their circle of resources. Of course, we could just add students to our social networks such as Facebook or Twitter, but I'm not one of those instructors who is comfortable sharing my Facebook information with my students and sometimes I take long breaks from Twitter. So at present, I'm playing with Flipboard. I create my own "magazine" around a particular class I'm teaching- Stats or Migration- and put articles that I think…